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CHARLES DAYTON CHANDLER, OF DAMASOUS, OREGON.

FOLDING BABY-CARRIAG E.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 591,158, dated October 5, 1897 Application filed April 29, 1897. Serial No| 634,394- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES DAYTON CHANDLER, a citizenof the United States, residing at Damascus,in the county of Clackamas and State of Oregon, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Folding Baby-Carriages; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention has relation to folding babycarriages; and the object is to improve the construction andincrease the usefulness and efficiency of the same.

To these ends the novelty consists in the construction, combination, and arrangement of the same, as will be hereinafter more fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings the same reference-numerals indicate the same parts of the invention.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved folding baby-carriage. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the same. Fig. 3 is a similar view showing thecarriage adj usted as a high chair. Fig. 4 shows the body extended to form a bed or cradle.

1 represents the front axle, and 2 the rear axle. A horizontal rectangular frame 4, provided with the central transverse hinge 5, is connected at its front and rear ends to said axles and forms the support for the body.

6 6 are the usual carrying-wheels, and 7 represents the handle, the lower ends of which are adjustably secured in the brackets 8 8, fixed on the rear axle, and when the carriage is in use as a chair the handle maybe folded underneath the body.

9 represents a spiral spring having its forward end secured to an eyebolt 10 on the front axle, and at its rear end is secured to a yoke 11, provided with a transverse pawl 12 and terminating in a hand-grip 12. This yoke encompasses a rod 13, journaled in bearings fixed to the rear axle and to the rear plate of the hinge 5, and said rod is providedwith a series of ratchet-shaped notches 14, which engage the pawl 12 and give resiliency and elasticity to the body when in use as a chair or jumper.

15 '15 represent apair of parallel elliptical springs fixed to the forward end of the frame 4 and having their upper ends secured to and supporting the body-section 16. i

17 17 represent a pair of S-shaped parallel side springs having their forward ends fixed in. the frame 4, and their upper free ends terminate in circular eyes 18, through which the bolts 19 pass into the sides of the body-section 20,which comprises the seat-chair. for the child to sit in.

21 represents a transverse board hinged to the forward edge of the bottom of the chairsection 20, and the opposite parallel edge of said board 21 is provided with eyes 22, which receive the pivoted hooks 23 on the rear edge of the bottom of the front section.

24 represents the folding foot-board, hinged to the transverse board 21, andwhen the carriage is not in use as a chair this foot-board is folded fiat, as shown in Fig. 4 but when the body portions are separated and the section 20 elevated, as shown in Fig. 3, the angular flange 25 of said foot-board rests against the face of the transverse board 21 and supports said foot in a horizontal position and at a right angle to the transverse board 21., which is now made to assume a vertical position, and it is secured thus by the angular brackets 26, fixed to the rear face of the board 21.

The hinge 5, connecting the front and back portions of the frame, is composed of two stout metal plates 27 and 28, and their contiguous edges are turned upward to form the parallel flanges-29 30, which abutagainst each other and support the frame in a horizontal position when extended.

31 represents a clamp-dog pivoted to the upper edge of the flange 29, and its angular arm 32'is adapted to engage the opposite flange 30 on the plate 28 and prevent the hinge closing when the frame is extended.

Although I have specifically described the construction and relative arrangement of the several elements of my invention, I do not desire to be confined to the same, as such changes or modifications may be made as clearly fall within the scope of my invention without departing from the spirit thereof.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A folding-baby-carriage, comprising the hinged frame 4, the. plates 27 and 28 having the angular parallel flanges 29 30, and the clamp-dog 31 pivoted to the flange 29 and adapted to detachably engage the opposite flange 30, substantially as shown and described.

2. A folding baby-carriage, comprising the hinged frame 4, the spring 9 fixed at one end to the forward end of said frame and having a hand-grip 12 provided with a transverse pawl 12 secured to the yoke 11 attached tosaid spring, in combination with the rod 13 journaled in the rear end of said frame and provided with a series of notches 14 adapted to engage said pawl, substantially as shown and described.

3. A folding baby-carriage, comprising the hinged frame, the elliptical springs 15 15 fixed 011 the forward end of said frame, the

body-section 16 mounted on said springs and provided at its rear edge with the hooks 23, in combination with the S-shaped side springs fixed in said frame and having their upper ends terminating in integral eyes 18, and the body-section 20 supported in said eyes by the bolts 19, and provided with the hinged transverse board 21 having the eyes 22, adapted to engage the hooks 23 on the opposite Y body-section, and the foot-board 24 hinged to said transverse board and provided with the right-angular flange 25, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES DAYTON CHANDLER.

Witnesses:

S. C. SPENCER, O. A. CRAFT. 

